Abraham Brueghel
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Abraham Brueghel (1631-1690) was a Flemish painter from the famous family of artists. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Younger, the grandson of Jan Brueghel the Elder and the great-grandson of Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
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[edit] Early life
Abraham was born in Antwerp, Belgium, where he spent most of his youth at. Much of his artistic training came from the hands of his father, Jan Brueghel the Younger. Abraham also drew artistic influence for Abraham showed great promise as an artist from an early age, and even starting to make a name for himself in his teenage years.
[edit] Life as an Artist
In 1649, at the age of 18, Abraham went to Italy to serve under commission for Prince Antonio Ruffio of Sicily. It was the first of many commissions in which Abraham demonstrated his artistic abilities in drawing still lifes, usually flowers.
Ten years later, in 1659, Brueghel moved to Rome, Italy and got married to an Italian woman less than a year later. He continued painting portraits of objects in nature, and for his artistic abilities, in 1670 he was invited into the Accademia di San Luca, a Roman academy designated for giving a higher level of education for artists.
A year later, Abraham moved to Naples, Italy, where he remained until his death there in 1690.
